Ruby Starr [Paperback]

<p><em>Perfect for younger fans of the Dork Diaries and Story Thieves series, Ruby Starr is an older Junie B. Jones with a big imagination and a love of reading.</em></p><p>Ruby Starr has always loved books. She loves them so much that she started a lunchtime book club called The Unicorns. She also has the best friends ever—some real, some fictional—and that's just the way she likes it.</p><p>But then one dark and stormy night (okay it was the morning of a sunny day) Charlotte, a new student comes to town. Ruby knows from her books that a new character probably means trouble...and she's right! Charlotte wants to turn the book club into a drama club, and she's spending a lot of time with Ruby's best friend.</p><p>Ruby's going to have to use her imagination and love of reading to solve this big problem before she loses her school friends and her book friends for good.<br></p>"Peppered with references to her favorite books, Ruby's fresh, humorous, first-person, present-tense account of her fifth-grade traumas, her real and imaginary friendships, and her supportive family rings true...[An] amusing sage of primary-school friendships with a clever pro-reading subtext." - <strong><em>Kirkus</em></strong>"Fans of Junie B. Jones will enjoy this work for its authentic look at middle school friendship. A great companion to James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts's Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life.<br>" - <strong><em>School Library Journal</em></strong>